Customer-participating type production/supply system operating apparatus

Abstract

According to the present invention, there is provided a customer-participating type production/supply system operating apparatus to be used in the production/supply activities, which are made premising the purchasing activities: that a customer offers a cooperation for reducing the production/supply cost of a supplier on the basis of the information aimed at customers on the cooperation request of the supplier, as acquired through the media such as magazines, newspapers, direct mails or internet for reducing all the production/supply cost containing the manufacture cost/the purchasing cost/the general managing cost/the estimated risk in the production/supply system of the supplier; and that the supplier examines and accepts the offer so that, at the time of the consuming activities of the customer to be made with the return of a portion or all of the fruits of the reduction of the production/supply cost, the customer can utilize the return benefits acquired not only from the partner, from whom the customer purchases the product, but also from a plurality of other suppliers.

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FIELD OF THE INVENTION[0001]The present invention realizes the reduction. (or the cost reduction) of all the production / supply costs that contain the manufacture cost / the purchasing cost / the general management cost / the estimated risk in the production / supply system of a supplier, by asking the powers of a number of customers, so that a customer is enabled to develop his consuming activities by entering the opened production / supply system in the supplier. Moreover, the present invention relates to the customer-participating type production / supply system operating apparatus which develops the technique capable of exhibiting the partnerships, as could not be efficiently operated before the development of the IT technology, between numerous customers and enterprises, so that the economic efficiency of the general society is promoted to spare the man / substance (resources) / money thereby to contribute to a harmonic development.DESCRIPTION OF THE RELATED ART[0002]The existing market is a on...

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Benefits of technology

[0079]According to the present invention, as has been described hereinbefore, on the basis of the information given from the aforementioned numerous suppliers, moreover, the customer selects the product he wants to purchase at present or in the future, or the supplier having the product group in accordance with his own desire, and cooperates for reducing (or the cost reduction) of the production/supply cost of the supplier, so that the merits of both the customer and the supplier can be achieved at the same time by acquiring the merit of the customer himself through the return benefits to come to hand and by contributing to the reduction (or the cost reduction) of the production/supply cost of the supplier on the other hand.

[0080]In order not to terminate the relation between the customer and the supplier by one pair but to apply it widely between the numerous customers and the numerous suppliers, moreover, the supplier gives the return benefits positively before the execution of the cooperation, if this cooperation of the customer is promised in the future for reducing (or the cost reduction) of the production/supply cost of the supplier, so that the customer can use the return benef

Problems solved by technology

On the other hand, the supplier has to pay extraordinarily from the aspect of cost, if he consumes such time and labor individually for the numerous customers, and this payment is impossible as a matter of fact.

In the unilateral production/supply system (in which the estimated risks or the like for maintaining the kinds, the specifications, the prices, the qualities and the system itself are decided only by the judgment of the supplier) of the supplier leading type of the prior art, however, a specific commodity or service provided by the supplier may become comparatively expensive for the estimated risk, may invite deterioration in the quality/service, or may hold the excessive production (or dead stock).

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